Research Scientists

Heather J. Ribaudo

Principal Research Scientist

Biostatistics

ribaudo@sdac.harvard.edu


Overview

Research

Heather Ribaudo (formerly Heather Beacon) is a Research Scientist at the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research (CBAR) and the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University where she focuses on HIV and AIDS clinical trials research within the AIDS clinical Trials Group (ACTG). Dr. Ribaudo is also the Associate Director of the Biostatistics and Computational Biology core of the Harvard University CFAR.

Dr. Ribaudo received her Ph.D. from the Medical Statistics department of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1996. Since joining CBAR as a post-doctoral fellow in 1997, Dr. Ribaudo has been involved in collaborative research in the HIV field and has been responsible for the design, monitoring, and analysis of many specific major NIAID-sponsored HIV clinical trials. Her research interests include the design and analysis of clinical trials in AIDS research particularly the choice, evaluation, and monitoring of surrogate endpoints, HIV-1 resistance, viral dynamics, and human genomics. She is also interested in the application of causal inference analysis for the estimation of treatment effects from observation data in HIV.


Bibliography

Effects of Pitavastatin on Coronary Artery Disease and Inflammatory Biomarkers in HIV: Mechanistic Substudy of the REPRIEVE Randomized Clinical Trial.

Lu MT, Ribaudo H, Foldyna B, Zanni MV, Mayrhofer T, Karady J, Taron J, Fitch KV, McCallum S, Burdo TH, Paradis K, Hedgire SS, Meyersohn NM, DeFilippi C, Malvestutto CD, Sturniolo A, Diggs M, Siminski S, Bloomfield GS, Alston-Smith B, Desvigne-Nickens P, Overton ET, Currier JS, Aberg JA, Fichtenbaum CJ, Hoffmann U, Douglas PS, Grinspoon SK.

JAMA Cardiol. 2024 Apr 01. 9(4):323-334. PMID: 38381407

Biological and Clinical Implications of the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Coreceptor Neuropilin-1 in Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

Schnittman SR, Kolossváry M, Beck-Engeser G, Fitch KV, Ambayec GC, Nance RM, Zanni MV, Diggs M, Chan F, McCallum S, Toribio M, Bamford L, Fichtenbaum CJ, Eron JJ, Jacobson JM, Mayer KH, Malvestutto C, Bloomfield GS, Moore RD, Umbleja T, Saag MS, Aberg JA, Currier JS, Delaney JAC, Martin JN, Lu MT, Douglas PS, Ribaudo HJ, Crane HM, Hunt PW, Grinspoon SK.

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Oct. 10(10):ofad467. PMID: 37869406

Pitavastatin to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in HIV Infection.

Grinspoon SK, Fitch KV, Zanni MV, Fichtenbaum CJ, Umbleja T, Aberg JA, Overton ET, Malvestutto CD, Bloomfield GS, Currier JS, Martinez E, Roa JC, Diggs MR, Fulda ES, Paradis K, Wiviott SD, Foldyna B, Looby SE, Desvigne-Nickens P, Alston-Smith B, Leon-Cruz J, McCallum S, Hoffmann U, Lu MT, Ribaudo HJ, Douglas PS.

N Engl J Med. 2023 Aug 24. 389(8):687-699. PMID: 37486775